Dynamics 365 Saturday heads to the US with a first stop in Dallas

365 Saturday is coming to the United States - to the city known as the Big D, Dallas, Texas, on March 10.

Dynamics 365 Saturday was originally started in Manchester, England in 2015 as CRM Saturday by Razwan Choudry, a Dynamics MVP and Dynamics community moderator, with the help of Microsoft MVPs from the SQL and Dynamics communities, such as Chris Testa, Baris Kanlica, and Stefano Tempesta.

The 365 Saturday series, which took shape based on the model of the long running SQL Saturday and SharePoint Saturday series, offers free educational events focused on technology and strategy. The events are organized by the Microsoft MVPs (in collaboration with Microsoft) and are geared toward an audience of CRM and ERP professionals, technical consultants and developers.

MSDW talked to Brandon Ahmad, who is leading the development of the D365 Dallas event. As a Dynamics freelancer, Ahmad is a hands-on master technical architect for AX/365 whose experience includes some of the largest and most complicated cases in the world.

MSDW: What is your role in the 365 Saturday Dallas event?

Brandon Ahmad: Raz, who started it, contacted me and told me they were very interested in bringing 365 Saturday to the USA, and that Microsoft senior management said they would like to see it in the US. From there, he saw that I had been active on social media channels ...